Border guards find bootleg booze pipeline
Thursday, June 9, 2016
MOSCOW -- Authorities in Ukraine said they foiled plans to ship bootleg alcohol from Moldova to Ukraine via a pipeline. The SBU security service said Tuesday border guards in the country's west stopped works to lay pipes on the bed of the Dniester river at a point where it crosses the border. The would-be bootleggers rented a house on the riverbank on the Ukrainian side and started to lay the pipe across the river, authorities said. The SBU released footage of the pipeline being dug up.
Subscribe below or log in with your password here.
For more than 115 years, the Southeast Missourian has written the first draft of local history. We have aspired to enrich, entertain, educate and inform. Our core values have remained firm: truth, service, quality, integrity and community. Support our mission.
Join today
Note: Special discounts available to new subscribers only. Print subscriptions may include up to 13 Premium Issues per year, which include special magazines. For each Premium Issue, your account balance will be charged an additional fee in the billing period when the section publishes. This will result in shortening the length of your billing period.